Exploring Employment through the Stages of

Stephanie Burkett ,B.S. and Mark Sunde, MSW, MAOM

Real Voices, Real Choices 2016

To learn how you can place hope and happiness back into your daily life.

To have more energy as well as improving your health.

To find courage to follow your dreams.

To learn ways to ask for what you want.

Ask for what you want

Reasons we run from happiness

Dream and imagine

Why don’t we ask for it? We aren’t sure of what we want There’s not enough for me We believe only weak people ask for what they

want

▪ When _____(event) happened at _____(time and place)

▪ I felt (a little) _____▪ Because _____▪ Therefore, I would like you to consider OR

therefore I am considering ________

Fear of getting it

Fear of losing it

The belief that we don’t deserve it

Guilt

The Pinocchio Formula1) Carve out your dream2) Believe in it3) Release it or speak it4) Never give up

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness for the past

Gratitude for the present

Hope for the future

Today you have learned how to place hope back into your life and how doing so will give youmore energy and improve your health. You have also found a renewed courage to follow your dreams again by asking for what you want.

We thank you for attending this session today andencourage you to “Keep On, Keeping On.” Startyour dream today and never give up, never give up, never give up, never give up.

George Bernard Shaw once said, “People are always blaming their circumstances, I don’t believe in circumstances. People who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

Or if you are like Muhammad Ali you might say it this way, “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

Share Items on Table with one another Reference: Taking Care of Me The Habits of Happiness By: Mary Kay Mueller